Peter Vander WallFounder driving creative community growth

Success is opportunity

Name: Success is opportunity
Uploaded: 2022-06-11T11:00:19+00:00
Duration: 1 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A brief conversational video (two speakers) exploring what "success" means in an industry context. Early dialogue frames success as "getting an…

11 Jun 2022 · 0 min

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A brief conversational video (two speakers) exploring what "success" means in an industry context. Early dialogue frames success as "getting an opportunity to do more of what you're presently doing," and questions whether high pay and demand constitute meaningful success if the work is hated. The clip foregrounds intentionality and whether opportunities align with personal preferences.

So here's a way to think about success.
Success in the industry is just getting an opportunity to do more of what you're presently doing.
If you're doing something that you hate, and you're making a ton of money doing it, and you're in super high demand to do this all the time, and you just can't seem to get away from doing it, is that really success? No, not really.
So then I guess the most important thing to think about when you're trying to chase after success is what does success actually look like? For me, it's good to go chasing after something, but you just have to do it with intentionality and make sure that you're choosing the right thing to chase after.